Some ten days before Rosh Hashanah, a lovely musical welcome was accorded to the new year about to enter the scene in the masorti Synagogue in Jerusalem - also marking the re-inauguration of the Synagogue after its renovation - by the Synagogue's Meitar Choir, conducted by Anat Rubinstein, in a joint concert with the Eitz Chaim Choir of Raanana, conducted by Moshe Cohen.

Telfed is a member of the Directorate of Partnership Together (P2G) Beit Shemesh-Mateh Yehudah, -South Africa. Initiated in the 1980’s by past Jewish Agency Shlicha to South Africa, Mickey Blumberg, P2G connects between the communities of the city of Beit Shemesh and the regional council of Metah Yehudah (the largest regional council in Israel, stretching from the Judean Hills to the Dead Sea) and the Jewish community of South Africa.